Well, paint me red and call me a girl scout, I totally did not see this one coming at all. This is so utterly surprising it made my brain explode. Hold on to your panties, because this will rock your world. After pressuring several smaller Android vendors into submission (and yes, HTC is still relatively small compared to other players), Microsoft is now moving on to the big one: Redmond is demanding $15 for every Samsung Android device sold. Samsung's choices are simple: pay up, or face another epic lawsuit.

Not2Sure: I dont know what you been smokin, but wow. You really need to lay off the drugs man.

I have seen lots and lots of people come and go saying "Linux infringes lots of patents." No one ever has anything that stands up in court. If you look at the patents listed in the B&N lawsuit, they are ridiculous. They won't stand a chance. They whole point that makes this work for Microsoft is that no one wants to incur the cost of fighting the battle. Even if they would win, they still lose.

Interesting because so far MS is looking real good against Moto over those same patents. Also I could of sworn that Tom Tom got pimp slapped by Microsoft over Linux and Tom Tom settled.

In reality people are settling because they know what the end results are going to be. Better to pay $15 per phone now then a lump sum and $20 a phone or whatever later.